How does one find out if an application is running in VMware or Virtual PC? I’ve seen a few hacks that do this, but often they create performance issues that I’d like to avoid. Is there a way to do this using Delphi code?

When I try to start my virtual machine, I get an error message saying that the hypervisor is not running. I'm able to open Hyper-V Manager fine, and have not had a problem running a VM on this physical machine before. Has anyone run into this issue?

What is Microsoft's official position in using virtualization (Virtual servers such as VMWare, etc.) for a SQL Server cluster (two node Active Passive) in a production environment? What are the best practices?

I wanted to perform a quick P2V migration of an old Server 2000 box that runs a couple of undocumented automated processes like file transfers. P2V utilities like Disk2VHD utilize the Shadow copy services within windows and the copy process fails because VSS is not available in server 2000. We're...

I'm hoping to find a solid, inexpensive network auditing tool for virtual networks as prep for a HIPAA compliance audit. Does anyone have suggestions of open source or pay tools they'd recommend? Do I need to pull in an outside party for this?

I'm heading to Interop next week in New York to rub elbows with all the big names in tech. From marrying the public and private cloud to assessing whether cloud security risk is overstated, I'll be absorbing the latest analyses of trends and announcements in the cloud. What do you want to know?...

I'm using the Storage Spaces feature in Windows Server 2012. Within the storage pool, we have several virtual disks (along with several physical disks). Now, those disks are running a normal 2-way mirror but it shows that two of them are degraded. After I checked, it says the virtual disks can't be...

Hi, I'm new to VMware I have 2 ESXi standalone host with local datastore and 1 Vcenter physical server. My question: In this environment, can I be able to configure HA and DRS between 2 host with local datastore? What is the minimum requirement for HA and DRs in VMware ESXi 5.1 host? Thank you!

I'm trying to set up IIS 8 on a new Server 2012 up and using it to run .net 4.5. For some reason, I can’t get it to run across all my drives. I get the following error message: Error: 500.19 Module IIS Web Core Notification Unknown Handler Not yet determined Error Code 0x80070005 Config Error...

I upgraded to Internet Explorer 10 and as it turns out, some of the stuff I am running can only run with IE9 and I need to go back to IE9. How can I uninstall IE10 but still have an internet connection to get back to IE9? I think there was an option that was like “download IE9 but run later” or...

I’d like to run my Windows Server 2012 as a guest virtual machine under a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host? Can this be done? If so, are there any restrictions on what the guest OS can do in this situation? I’m hoping to use it for IIS, COM+ and general WinForms installation functionality....

Hey guys, Currently we are running Windows NT 4.0 on our network and will be upgrading our hardware and software to Server 2012. In-order to do this we must virtualize our Windows NT server because we our still running a legacy database called PC-File. We our upgrading our database but right now it...

There is a plan to deploy VDI in my organization. As a part of the testing team, i would need some clarity regarding the capability of VDIs. Right now, am using desktop PC , where i have Virtual PC and VM Workstation applicaitons, that let me run different OS within my PC. I can easily switch...

I am getting ready to install Sharepoint 2013, but I’m unsure which VM software I should use. I am operating on Windows 7. I don’t think I can use Hyper v, so should I go with Virtual Server, VM Ware or something else?

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